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john hewitt: Oh, we are back, baby. Y'all thought we were gone? Don't we put this shit away? Don't we stop paying these fucking bills, son? No way. We are fucking back. This is Waiting for Other Players, a Hunt Showdown podcast.
john hewitt: Crackin' one open for the working, man. This is John Cat coming at you live from the Cat House. It's been far too long. Fresh from the Pink Pony Club, the one-man Fu SWAT team himself. Harrison, Harrison, how are you doing this afternoon?
Clutch Commander: I'm doing pretty good.
john hewitt: Yeah, we're not fucking around. We're getting right into it. You got a hard out, and I got a hard on. we've ah We've been waylaid by life on all sides. ah You almost died in a car accident.
john hewitt: I'm still trying to get my hot dog business off the off the fucking ground. We've been stuck under five inches of ice. So ah we're just going to try and, yeah, it's been it's been a dog shit couple of months.
Clutch Commander: been awful.
john hewitt: This is episode 12 of season two. Seems like season two started a million years ago, but, yeah, it is what it is. And we're going to try and get back on a regular schedule. I say that all the time, but I'm going to try.
john hewitt: So ah we'll start off with um segment one. Harrison, what have you been doing this week?
Clutch Commander: This week, we've watched Wonder Man.
john hewitt: I've heard it's magical.
Clutch Commander: It's a lot better than I thought it would be. I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was, especially with the way they ended it.
Clutch Commander: Because they could have fumbled the end.
john hewitt: you like You liked to the ending or you didn't like the ending?
Clutch Commander: I like
john hewitt: Yeah. you know i The way you were saying it, I was like, dude, I've heard the ending is actually very good considering this is I think this is supposed to be like a one and done.
Clutch Commander: Yes. I... If they bring it back, I don't know how they would bring it back. You know I
john hewitt: I think that's what they're saying with this Marvel spotlight branding is that they're like, that's why Echo, the this the series they made with the um the disabled chick that was in Hawkeye, i think that's why hers was a one and done.
Clutch Commander: mean?
Clutch Commander: Yeah.
john hewitt: And she's never come back because it's a Marvel spotlight.
Clutch Commander: Okay.
john hewitt: It's a spotlight into her small little area of the Marvel universe.
Clutch Commander: And I'm okay with that. I'm okay with this being its own little Hollywood adventure and never coming back here.
john hewitt: Yeah. And not everything needs to, ah now that the universe is so big, like not everything should be, and this is going to be the guy that helps us beat the shit out of Dr. Doom. like the It's a universe.
john hewitt: They should be able to do like a random ass one shot and just be like, no, this is what this guy's doing over here. like You could have really alleviated some of the pain of Moon Knight by just saying it's a one and done.
john hewitt: Because why wouldn't that guy show up in other stuff?
Clutch Commander: Yeah.
john hewitt: But if it was a Marvel spotlight, you'd be like, dude, this was fucking rad. I enjoyed my time with it.
Clutch Commander: Yeah, it's one and done and I don't need to i don't need to come back.
john hewitt: Yeah. yeah And this guy doesn't need to show up in 7,000 things. Um...
Clutch Commander: Yeah.
john hewitt: um
Clutch Commander: which I'm very happy with the ending.
john hewitt: Yeah, I think I'm trying to talk my wife into watching it. We kind of had to budget our television time. But um yeah, I've heard very good things about that and Night of the Seven Kingdoms.
john hewitt: So...
Clutch Commander: I have not dipped my toes into that.
john hewitt: From what I've heard, it is you need the least amount of knowledge, Game of Thrones knowledge to go into it.
Clutch Commander: Okay.
john hewitt: And it's the same as Wonder Man. It's a half hour.
Clutch Commander: Okay.
john hewitt: And it's literally just this guy's a hedge knight. He has no lands, no people, no money, and he just wants to get to a tournament. So that way he can win the joust, maybe get picked up by one of these other houses, and then like get the life that he thinks he deserves by just winning this tournament. It's it's just a knight's tale Game Thrones style.
john hewitt: And it's it.
Clutch Commander: doesn't sound bad.
john hewitt: And it's lighthearted. It's a half an hour. Everybody loves the guy they have playing Duncan the Tall. Everybody loves the kid. So it's ah it's one of those things like where I've heard good things about Wonder Man and good things about that.
john hewitt: I'd probably watch that by myself because she could give two shits about Westeros.
Clutch Commander: Yeah.
john hewitt: I've watched Game of Thrones tangentially in 30 second increments through TikTok and Instagram for years.
Clutch Commander: So,
Clutch Commander: It's good. It does not... It fumbles the... I can't even say it fumbles the end because...
john hewitt: yeah there we don't know what the end would be i died I don't think we ever get that book I think he saw how bad they fucked it up and he's like dude that's a that's a writer's room of people and they couldn't fucking figure this out and I'm one guy I'm just gonna stay over here
Clutch Commander: and Well, yeah, because he's still right. he's I don't know if he gave up right here or not.
Clutch Commander: Well, you see... The thing about that is, is Apple TV just announced that they are doing a Mistborn movie and Stormlight TV show.
john hewitt: oh yeah yeah yeah
Clutch Commander: And i am so excited.
john hewitt: yeah
Clutch Commander: He's writing the fucking ah screenplay for the movie Mistborn right now. I am so happy and excited.
john hewitt: Well, Sanderson's still putting out content. Fucking um the the Game of Thrones he's just been kind of like, he's done like Elden Ring and that's it.
john hewitt: Like he hasn't done shit it said the since the show ended.
Clutch Commander: Yeah.
Clutch Commander: Well, yeah, well, fucking Brandon Sanderson writes like Stephen King.
john hewitt: Yeah, it's a job.
Clutch Commander: It's a fucking book every three months. Well, it's a book every three months.
john hewitt: Yeah.
Clutch Commander: When he's tired of writing one book, he writes another book.
john hewitt: Yeah, yeah. Dude's just fucking pumping them out.
Clutch Commander: Yeah.
john hewitt: um Yeah, I mean, i i I haven't had too much going on. Like I said, I've been stuck under about a foot and a half of ice here in Baltimore and work for the post office. It's long days until this shit melts, and it's been a lot of arc raiders and um just trying to stay warm.
john hewitt: Uh, we can actually jump straight from this into, ah any kind of gameplay. We have been playing hunt showdown. Don't think that we've forgotten the faces of our fathers.
john hewitt: We've had some doozies.
Clutch Commander: had
john hewitt: Uh, but, um, I mean, is there really anything? the event is over. We're onto the, uh, I love that. It's a German company that celebrates Chinese new year.
Clutch Commander: Oh, we're Chinese in here.
john hewitt: Like every year, every year we get these weird, like, it's like, here's this samurai guy and it's a small story that has to do with the Chinese Zodiac. Or here's this thing and it's a small thing that, like, I i really enjoy that thing, but that's what we're on to now. We finished the post Malone carnival and we're on to this thing now.
john hewitt: Um... Is there anything that stuck out to you particularly from this event besides the flame rifle flame rifle? We know it's fucking amazing, but like we'll make this quick and we'll try and get on to other business. Is there anything that stuck out to you?
Clutch Commander: Not, I mean, it went like ah any other event. Everybody's using the same things, you know. Everybody starts taking odd things for the challenge and then stops.
john hewitt: Yeah. Exactly. They all have to they all have the same challenges they got to work through.
Clutch Commander: Yeah. But, I mean, not, it was like any other hunt event. I mean, it's, you know, it's kind of cutting pace now for what goes on.
john hewitt: Yeah, I will say the flame rifle. We're not even going to discuss it. It's just 10 out of 10. It was perfect. ah But I will say i loved what they did with the bear in the circus.
john hewitt: The first time we went in there and we fucked with him and we were like, well, just run out. Just run out of the tent and he'll he'll stay in there and we can regroup. He busted through the sidewall, that bitch.
john hewitt: Scared all of us. And then we were all scrambling.
john hewitt: Yeah.
Clutch Commander: Yeah, I did not...
john hewitt: Oh,
Clutch Commander: I apparently forgot that he did that or wasn't aware that could do that, and he scared the shit out of me.
john hewitt: yeah.
john hewitt: Yeah.
john hewitt: Yeah, he did it the first night we we did it. And I guess you forgot because I think you went over there to try and get your health back one night and you were like, oh, my God. Oh, of a bitch.
john hewitt: Like you were just screaming at the top of your lungs. Um, there wasn't a lot of new weapons outside of the flame rifle, which is fine. I like that they brought back the, um, the homestead and the, whatever the hell the centennial swift is the, the bigger center. I remember the homestead cause it's a beautiful, it's a beautiful fucking double barrel shotgun. I can't remember homelander. It's not the homelander wildlander.
Clutch Commander: Homestead.
john hewitt: homestead there we go bing bang um but uh i like that they brought them back only available on the map for the event i was like that's the perfect way to do those weapons same way with the flay i i love that the flame rifle was just on the opposite side of the wall from the from the ripper which also was good
Clutch Commander: Yeah.
Clutch Commander: Yeah. I did enjoy the flame rifle, but it, It worked a lot better against the boss than it did against people.
Clutch Commander: Against people, I still prefer the flaming hand crossbow.
john hewitt: Yes. Well, I think we just didn't have, we didn't have a lot of time. Like all of our schedules have been fucked. Like the post Malone event was okay. It was good. We all, I mean, I finished it. I assume you finished it.
Clutch Commander: Yes.
john hewitt: I don't know if our third finished it, but like we didn't have a lot of time with it because we're adults. Our schedules are kind of fucked. But at the same time, i feel like the flame rifle came in halfway through and was only there for the second half of the fucking thing.
john hewitt: So it really cut down on like enjoying the flame rifle.
Clutch Commander: It did, but I still enjoyed it I just...
john hewitt: Yeah, I think if if you would had more time with it, you'd have a better gauge of how to use it in PvP.
Clutch Commander: i don't know. Yeah.
Clutch Commander: Yeah.
john hewitt: But um have you been playing anything else? I know... ah We were getting a little burned out there on Hunt. Have you been playing anything else?
Clutch Commander: I'm playing a little bit of Ark Raiders, a little bit of the Gundam card game.
john hewitt: Nice.
Clutch Commander: Other than that, not really. There's a bunch of stuff coming out that I'm excited for.
john hewitt: Yeah. Yeah, I'm thinking about pre-ordering Resident Evil.
Clutch Commander: yeah
john hewitt: I love a good mainline Resident Evil, and this is within the new continuity, so I'm i'm kind of pumped. um I really could give less of a shit that Leon's back, but at the same time, it takes place in Raccoon City, so if it's not Leon, it should be like Claire.
Clutch Commander: yeah
john hewitt: Like Jill and Chris, they're... They're stars members, but like I associate them. Well, maybe Jill, but that's only because of Nemesis. But like I associate Raccoon City more with Claire and Leon just because like, you know, that's where you fucking that's primarily where you deal with them and their their game.
john hewitt: um I, too, have been playing the Ark Raiders.
Clutch Commander: Mm-hmm.
john hewitt: Can i tell you some things that I think Ark Raiders has done perfect and they make they actually make Hunt Showdown look a little bit foolish?
john hewitt: I love Hunt Showdown. I love it with all my heart and soul. was playing it earlier today. today. um The thing they do in Ark Raiders that I love is, number one, when you extract, you're given a map with a simple dotted line and a simple annotation of what happens and where. It's a dotted line to the first compound, third Three little annotations of you ran into a wasp here, a snitch here, and a turret here, a little dotted line to the second compound. You killed a raider here. you did this here. And it's an easy to track after action report of what you did. And if you died, it tells you where you died, how you died.
john hewitt: Hunt should have done that from the fucking jump.
john hewitt: When I die, i should be able to look at an after-action report and be like, either this was a five-second, I spawned, fought, and got my ass kicked, or this has been a full 40-minute match.
john hewitt: I've been everywhere. I've chased bounty holders. I've gone everywhere. I want to see me zigzag across the map, and I want to know where I got into fights and and like how good I did.
john hewitt: they easily could have given us a dotted line or a little fucking cartoon. Like when you watch Psycho Ghost or Neo and they want to cut down the video so they just forego the clips of them running from compound to compound and you just get a little quick, quick, quick, quick.
john hewitt: Crytek easily could have done that.
Clutch Commander: Yes.
john hewitt: Number two. I think... Giving the weapon attachments, the blueprints, and then you can yank attachments off of people's guns.
john hewitt: Like if I get a, whatever, a Stitcher 3 and the guys put a stock and a silencer on it. I think that's it makes the weapon unique and it makes it fun that even though i have a Stitcher, he has a Stitcher, his is more personal to him.
john hewitt: Why the fuck would they not do that in Hunt? I mean, they've done it with weapon charms, sure. I could pick up a gun and have a weapon charm on it be like, this is clearly what this guy prefers. But if if we have silencers for the Nagant...
john hewitt: Why wouldn't you like be like the Nagant is one of a handful of weapons that can either take a silencer or a precision stock? Here are two options for both. There's a pro silencer and there's a pro stock or a shitty stock and the shitty silencer.
Clutch Commander: yeah
john hewitt: And that way, if I kill, you know, fucking truck nut 69 and he's got a really cool skin, but he's got two attachments, basically,
john hewitt: I don't need to get the blueprint for these attachments, but it's cool knowing that in my trophy case of bullshit I have, I've got two things that this guy fucking hand selected for his weapon.
john hewitt: It makes him individual. it It adds a little bit of fucking flair.
Clutch Commander: Yeah.
john hewitt: I just, and it's little things that Ark Raiders does that I think Crytek really could benefit from just like a quick fucking glossing over. Like just, I mean, half of this job of creating creating anything, you want to be a creative writer, musician, make a movie, make a video game. You steal from the best.
john hewitt: And if somebody's doing a product better than you, by all means, steal some fucking concepts, dog.
Clutch Commander: Yeah. I mean, another thing they're doing is it appears, not going to say 100%, but it appears the AI is learning.
john hewitt: Yeah. Oh, yeah.
john hewitt: Yeah, but I don't think I want an immolator learning.
Clutch Commander: No, but like,
john hewitt: You duck in a room and then this thing opens the door like a fucking velociraptor at Jurassic Park.
Clutch Commander: true but it'd be i i don't know how they would do something like that but um i the the ai learning is quite possibly the scariest thing on earth
john hewitt: Yeah. Like, have you seen the video with the the pops, the little rolling ball things? And like, they open the door and this one's just running back and forth.
john hewitt: And they're laughing because they can't shoot the fucking thing it's moving so fast. And then they hear it from behind them. This thing has been screening the whole time while a second one has found a route around the compound and come right up behind the two raiders.
Clutch Commander: Yeah. Did you?
john hewitt: And like i I've had run ins with like a leaper that I've I've ducked into the um not the Raider hatch, but like the extraction hatches where you go down the steps and you wait for the fucking floor to open.
Clutch Commander: Yeah.
john hewitt: I've had a leaper try and squeeze its way down to get to me.
Clutch Commander: Terrifying.
john hewitt: Oh, I I was literally screaming and I was on the mic telling the other guy hit the fucking button, hit the fucking button.
Clutch Commander: Yeah, the, um, in the botanical gardens, normally they'd stay out of the structures there.
john hewitt: and In the domes?
Clutch Commander: Yep, not no more.
john hewitt: Yeah.
Clutch Commander: Not no more.
john hewitt: Nah.
Clutch Commander: Yep.
john hewitt: Yeah. They were real quick to be like, we can fit in here?
Clutch Commander: It's fucking crazy and terrifying because you're like, oh, I'm low health.
john hewitt: Yeah.
Clutch Commander: Let me just dip in here real quick to heal. And then two of them squeeze through and start fucking shooting at you and you're like well I'm fucked
john hewitt: The other thing that, I mean, I feel like it's self-explanatory with Ark Raiders is because it's like every match is technically a 30-minute match, but like it's quicker to spawn in because if I go to the damn battlegrounds, I'm going to spawn in immediately to whatever game is currently active. I could spawn into one that's got 10 minutes left. I could spawn in fresh to one that's got 30 minutes left.
Clutch Commander: Yeah, but I wouldn't want people spawning in late.
john hewitt: in In hunt, yes, ah that's that's what I'm saying as well. It would bother me spawning in late and finding out the bounty's already been banished, but there's got, like, waiting to load into a game is getting to be a nuisance.
Clutch Commander: Yes.
john hewitt: There was a time when you were able to pick two servers... And if you couldn't get on one, they bounced you to the second one. And we had a good fucking time playing across Europe.
Clutch Commander: Yeah.
john hewitt: Can't do that now.
Clutch Commander: No.
john hewitt: I mean, we can. We can go fucking... I can put mine on European server and we can see what happens. But it's just a problem of like, if I click start match, whether it's bounty clash or bounty hunt, we're waiting for like two, three minutes.
john hewitt: Like, it's not an exaggeration. It's it's like two, three fucking minutes.
Clutch Commander: Yeah, but even that's not awful.
john hewitt: No, it just feels...
Clutch Commander: I mean,
john hewitt: It feels wrong after playing, like... I mean, Christ. Even Call a Duty. Like, there's so many games that find matchmaking quicker than fucking...
john hewitt: ah
Clutch Commander: Yeah, but you also gotta think Hunts, while a popular game, it is smaller game.
john hewitt: Yeah. Smaller.
Clutch Commander: So I wish they, I don't know, put you in a fucking lobby with people and just had you running around with, you know, whatever.
john hewitt: Yeah.
john hewitt: Yeah. I mean, there's there has to be a solution to the problem. I realize I'm just bitching, but like there's got to be something that can be done. Because like I love the game, I play the game all the time, but like these are the things that eventually people are going to be playing, people that are playing Hunt, that we are playing... like We are playing Bounty Clash and stuff. like We're seeing people that are on the maps.
john hewitt: This is the shit that's going to drive them to another game when other games are doing it better.
Clutch Commander: Yeah.
john hewitt: and And I mean, unfortunately, that's that's like that's the shit that's...
Clutch Commander: Yeah.
john hewitt: it's just like It's unfortunate. I can't even think of a way to put it other than unfortunate.
Clutch Commander: Yeah, but I don't know.
john hewitt: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. This is a Crytek solution. like It's not for us to find.
Clutch Commander: Yeah.
john hewitt: i can I'm stupid. I sell hot dogs and I put mail in a box. That's all I do. I'm i'm a dumb... I'm a ding-dong. But they should be able to come up with some kind of solution to this problem.
Clutch Commander: yeah
john hewitt: I know you have a heart out of ah coming up here at 5.30 Eastern Standard. So... um I guess winding down here with our great return.
john hewitt: um What are you looking forward to playing? We're getting into the springtime here. Weather's going to be breaking shortly. What are you looking forward to playing?
Clutch Commander: Well, I'm not sure. Let me quickly open up my Steam library and see what I have that I'm excited for.
john hewitt: There you go.
Clutch Commander: Because there are several games I was looking for.
john hewitt: We got a big update coming for Cult of the Lamb.
Clutch Commander: it
Clutch Commander: Really?
john hewitt: cut Yeah, I think they said it's damn near a whole, it's it's big enough to be damn near a second game.
john hewitt: It's a, it's a, like they did the multiplayer update, but I think this is supposed to be like a big content update.
Clutch Commander: right.
john hewitt: Well, DLC, it's not an update.
Clutch Commander: um
Clutch Commander: looking through i don't really see anything that is coming out anytime soon there's a bunch of stuff i'm looking kind of looking forward to there's a game uh that's an early access called diner lords which
john hewitt: Fucking day. That could be cool.
Clutch Commander: Yeah, it's exactly what it sounds like. It's a city builder with dinosaurs. So it's a medieval city builder with dinosaurs.
john hewitt: Yeah, I could get down that.
Clutch Commander: So.
john hewitt: You're basically making the city from fucking Super Mario Brothers, the movie, the original.
Clutch Commander: Yeah.
john hewitt: Dino DNA.
Clutch Commander: Yep.
john hewitt: um Yeah, i'm I'm leaning towards, I got a bunch of tabletop stuff I've been a bit accumulating, and i know we're in the middle of our Call of Cthulhu campaign. I hope you're still having fun yeah game mastering us. I'm trying to keep us on the straight and narrow.
Clutch Commander: I am. um I'm curious to see how this little thing goes that we're currently in because of I know where it ends a little bit.
Clutch Commander: And I'm just kind of curious how you guys will take these things.
john hewitt: Yeah.
Clutch Commander: We'll see how that goes.
john hewitt: i i We will probably never ever play it because i like the guy, but he is kind of hit and miss with, I'd love to play this game. i i need a break. I need somebody else to run some stuff.
john hewitt: But that being said, building the city, I have not been able to stop thinking about it.
Clutch Commander: It was definitely fun doing. i just, I don't know where we'll go with it kind of thing.
john hewitt: Yeah.
john hewitt: Me neither. I'll probably use it for some creative writing stuff, but ah there's that. I have a bunch of stuff that I bought off Humble Bundle. i saw a game today at the game store because I tried to go bowling and I couldn't get in because the bowling alley for some reason was full at one o'clock on a Tuesday.
john hewitt: um But I found a game called Garbage and Glory where it's basically D&D, but you play as a raccoon.
Clutch Commander: intriguing.
john hewitt: and Sounds great. ah Shadow Dark. i'm still I'd love to get my hands on some Shadow Dark, but you have to get it straight from the publisher, and I don't have that kind of initiative.
john hewitt: And yeah, as far as the spring goes on my end, I'm um going to finish up the hot dog cart this weekend before the snow, and hopefully we're we're fucking making making money, and I can get a little cash put away before I head to Florida in March.
Clutch Commander: Yeah, I'm hoping for you.
john hewitt: Yeah, me too. Well, you got yourself a new car anyway, so...
Clutch Commander: Well, yeah, but i didn't have a I didn't have much of a choice in that one.
john hewitt: Yeah, but, you know, new car's always fun.
Clutch Commander: Well, it is, but like considering the cost of everything, it was a new car or a used car that is used.
john hewitt: It's a... Yeah.
john hewitt: Yeah, super used.
Clutch Commander: Yeah. Yeah.
john hewitt: Well, I'm glad you got it taken care of. I'm glad, uh,
john hewitt: I'm glad nobody nobody perished.
Clutch Commander: Same.
john hewitt: But I think we're running a little bit long here on our return. With my new schedule, hopefully we can keep this thing going. ah Harrison, is there anything you want to leave everybody with on the way out the door?
Clutch Commander: Stay warm in this cold weather and don't get discouraged because you can't leave your house for a few days.
john hewitt: Hell yeah.
john hewitt: ah In times like these, i'm reminded of an old saying, and that old saying is, let the light but the light of a solo burning keep you warm this holiday season.
john hewitt: ah It's cold as shit outside. Stay inside with the ones you love. Hold hands with your spouse. Kiss your partner on the lips. And just remember, you may be living a three-star life, but goddammit, I hope you have a six-star week. We're not forgetting anybody.
john hewitt: ah We've missed everyone. We're back-ish. And ah yeah, this has been Waiting for Other Players, a Hunt Showdown podcast. I hope to see you all again soon. Find us on Instagram, WaitingForOtherPlayersPod, all one word.
john hewitt: Holla at you boys. ah I'm happy to be back. Harrison, good evening.
Clutch Commander: need.
